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Flash Flood — Schuylkill, PA

Jun 4, 2020

Numerous showers and thunderstorms impacted central Pennsylvania on June 4, 2020. Individual cells formed over the central mountains during the afternoon hours, with some displaying supercellular nature. Splitting cells were observed, and there were numerous hail and damaging wind reports. This activity continued into the evening hours, while a separate, diminishing convective line of storms pushed into central Pennsylvania from the west. ||One Flash Flood was reported during the evening in Sch

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 905702). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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